Three residential and office towers, a convention centre and hotels will form part of the Maldives International Financial Centre (MIFC), President Mohamed Muizzu's office said in a statement.

The output increase of 411,000 barrels a day announced by Saudi Arabia, Russia and six other members of the oil cartel on Saturday added to concerns about over-supply.

Influential billionaire investor Warren Buffett said Saturday he would retire from leading his Berkshire Hathaway business group by the end of the year and that he would recommend his chosen successor Greg Abel take over.

It is worth looking beyond the immediate economic cost of the IMF loan

Bangladeshi migrants sent home $2.75 billion in the month

Influential billionaire investor Warren Buffett said Saturday he would retire from leading his Berkshire Hathaway business group by the end of the year and that he would recommend his chosen successor Greg Abel take over..Buffett's success, coupled with his ability to explain his thinking

Southeast Asia accounted for nearly 80 percent of US solar panel imports in 2024.

Trump has imposed steep levies on China, and lower "baseline" levies of 10 percent on goods from most other countries, along with 25 percent duties on specific items like steel, automobiles and aluminum.

Apple on Thursday reported first-quarter profit above expectations but warned that US tariffs could cost the company and were disrupting its supply chain.

The listed drugmaker made Tk 58 crore in the January-March quarter

So far, ships had been taking away export containers

Trump's on-again-off-again tariffs -- and the retaliation launched by other countries -- has cowed importers, whose usual orders for furniture, toys, and clothing have dwindled.

Starting on Friday, goods shipped commercially will now be subject to new tariffs of 145 percent -- the current level of levies imposed on goods coming from China.

However, job creation was still well above the market consensus of 130,000, according to Briefing.com, and remained slightly above the average monthly gain over the past 12 months.

In early April, Trump said many countries had “ripped us off left and right” and declared “now it’s our turn to do the ripping”. His administration swiftly imposed sweeping tariff increases, with some of the highest rates falling on poorer countries like Laos and Lesotho.

Migrants sent home $2.6 billion in the first 29 days of April

If an angry trading partner wanted to go for US President Donald Trump’s jugular, its head of state might make a speech something like this:

Trump signed an executive order to limit the impact of overlapping tariffs on automakers.

Donald Trump has shown he has a low pain threshold. The US president seems happy to bully those he considers weak. He does not seem so relaxed when there is a strong counter-reaction, especially from financial markets.

HSBC warned that loan demand and credit quality could suffer from the broader fallout of US President Donald Trump’s global trade war, signalling tougher times for trade-focused banks even as the lender’s first quarter profit beat forecasts.